aconventional

[ey-kuhn-ven-shuh-nl] not observing any conventions. Outside of convention. A blog for everyone and no-one.

Thursday, September 08, 2022

The Time Machine

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You travel hundreds of years into the past. You find yourself in the midst of redundant conversations - the brightest people on the planet a...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Authenticity and political correctness

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Growing up, it was normal to make fun of people for being fat. People did it on TV, we did it in playgrounds, doctors and louts alike would ...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

On learning's beginning

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It’s almost impossible today for those of us involved in ‘Education’, ‘Learning and Development’, or ‘Training’ to think about learning or t...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

The Transience Effect

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Research is often misleading if you don't have a theory that you're testing. As Karl Popper pointed out science begins with a theory...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

What crosses the bridge?

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Nietzsche says that man is a bridge, Heidegger uses the word 'clearing' to say the same thing in reference to Dasein (humankind). Bu...
Saturday, April 09, 2022

Are you dead yet?

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  This I know for sure: When someone has stopped laughing, when there is no playfulness left in them, then they are already dead. They are n...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

Instructional design is useless.

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  Instructional design is useless. There are two reasons why it’s useless: the first is that it’s folklore: a good deal of instructional des...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

I would only believe in a god who could dance...

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Image: Yogendra Singh "I would only belive in a god who could dance, and when I found my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

There is no content

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I have sometimes said ‘ there is no content ’ or ‘ the word content is a red flag ’ – indicating that we are likely doing education and not ...
Monday, August 09, 2021

Soul & body, thinking & feeling

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  Imagine travelling three hundred years into the past and trying to convince people that there is no such thing as soul. They would laugh a...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

AI and the Pinocchio effect

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  The watchmaker rises early, and one morning is struck by the beauty of the dawn chorus. After listening to birdsong, he creates a musica...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Message in a bottle

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  A few years ago I figured out how learning works. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to publish a book explaining How People L...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

You called. I am not home.

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You called. I am not home. Instead, as you raised your hand to knock Home rose from the dust, And as the words left your lips, I became to a...
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